UploadWizard is a multi-file, step-by-step JavaScript wizard to upload multimedia files to a MediaWiki website. It is available as a MediaWiki extension.

The Multimedia team is now planning to incrementally upgrade this tool in 2014 and 2015, by fixing some longstanding bugs, as well as improve parts of the user experience and refactoring some of the code.

The Upload Wizard aims to make it easier to contribute multimedia works to Wikimedia projects.

This tool is now widely used to upload images on Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository associated with Wikipedia; any media file shared on that site can be used in any Wikipedia page in any language. Wikimedia Commons is curated by a multilingual community and recently reached 21 million files.

We will aim to support both user groups evenly, with an initial focus on Commons users -- then contributors on Wikipedia and other sites. Note that you must be registered and logged-in to use Upload Wizard.

Based on current feedback and usability tests, our designer Pau Giner has prepared some preliminary design ideas to help define our vision for Upload Wizard (see slides below). These are explorations and reflections about a more modern upload experience, but don't necessarily reflect what will be built, as more community consultation would be required.

Over the years, many bugs have accumulated for this project, because Wikimedia Foundation did not have a dedicated team to address them. Now that the multimedia team has taken ownership of Upload Wizard, we will work diligently to fix the most important bugs first, then gradually resolve the rest of the relevant issues over time. Thanks for your patience and understanding :)